Blog Posts tagged ‘Jerry Ripperger’

A committee of parents appointed Monday night by the Waukee school board will make boundary recommendations for the district’s seventh elementary, Woodland Hills Elementary School.
Construction of Woodland Hills is slated to begin this spring at the intersection of Stagecoach Drive and 95th Street in West Des Moines. It will open ...

The elimination of spring break could become an unintended consequence of efforts by some state lawmakers to push the first day of classes in Iowa schools closer to Labor Day.
A measure to restrict school start dates to no earlier than the fourth Monday in August was approved Tuesday by the ...

Waukee students in grades six and eight will have technology instructors co-teaching in some of their general education classes next school year.
Waukee Middle School Principal Amy Johnson said the goal is to embed technology in all aspects of students’ academic lives.
Johnson said the new approach will help students realize that ...

Property owners in the Waukee school district will pay a lower school tax rate in the fiscal year that begins on July 1.
On Monday, the Waukee Board of Education proposed a tax rate of $17.61 per $1,000 of taxable assessed value.
That rate is a decrease of 19 cents from the ...

Waukee students will start the 2012-13 school year on Wednesday, Aug. 15.
Educators said the slightly earlier start date will allow Waukee High School students to complete their final exams before they leave for winter break. In 2011, Waukee students started school on Wednesday, Aug. 17.
The Waukee school board approved the ...

Waukee students could start the 2012-13 school year as early as Tuesday, Aug. 14.
That’s the start date Waukee educators are considering, although no official action has been taken. The earlier start date would ensure Waukee High School students completed their final exams before the start of winter break, educators said.
“It ...

Many of the reforms proposed in Iowa’s education blueprint have already been implemented in the Waukee school district, school board members said Monday night.
“I think this is very incremental at best for Waukee. It’s far from transformational. I think the vast majority of the stuff that’s in this plan, we’ve ...

Nicole Lawrence, the communications coordinator at the Southeast Polk Community School District, will start a similar job with the Waukee school district on Nov. 28.
Lawrence, 29, has a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from Grand View University. She has worked for Southeast Polk for more than two years and said ...

If you plan to attend a Waukee school board meeting in the future, circle “Monday” on your calendar.
Waukee school board members decided unanimously tonight to move their regularly scheduled meetings from the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month to the second and fourth Mondays of the month.
This change will ...

Waukee school board members will elect a new board president tonight.
The “reorganization” meeting starts at 7 p.m. today at the district’s administration office, 560 SE University Ave.
The current board president is Jerry Ripperger, who was reelected on Sept. 13. Board members could choose to reelect Ripperger as president, or select ...